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Usoland the Liar

3Chapter 741: Usoland the Liar[Insert text: Usoland (Usopp) makes a run for it...?!][Box: Beneath Dresrosa - Trading Port]Usopp: Now, it’s all well and good that I’ve got away... // But how am I gonna get out of this place?!! // I can’t make it back through the hole we used to get in on my own... I know! There’s meant to be a lift, right? // Seriously, though, what does Franky think he’s doing~?!!Trebol: Hey there, you people outside!!! // Nnyehh, nnyehh, I hope you’re all working hard!! // This ain’t some kind of show, you know! Beheheheh!!Dwarfs: ...............!!Sugar: What are we going to do with all this?People: Oh, crap. Get back to work!!

6Leo: Even the toys...who are being forced to work every day here underground...!!Toys: ?! // (Huh?! // ..................)Leo: Even our comrades who are being put to work as slaves in the factory...!! // Even the toys who put on false smiles in the streets while inside they are crying...!! // Even the poor Big Humans who don’t realise they have lost the ones they love...!! // Usoland will save them all...! // He’s a legendary hero!!!People: ...............!!Usopp: ...............!! // You’ve gotta be kidding me!!

7Sugar: .........Trebol: You poor little fools...!! / Those are all lies.Dwarfs: Ehhh?!!Trebol: You’ve just been tricked again, haven’t you?Dwarfs: I... / Is that true??!Trebol: He’s not coming to help you now when you’re all lying defeated, is he...? / What more proof do you need?!!! Do you see a hero here?! Where is he, nyehhh?!Dwarfs: ......!! // But...he told us himself...Trebol: He’s off hiding somewhere laughing at you all right now!!! Beheheheh!!!Dwarfs: Ehhhhh?!!Trebol: You’re honest little people, so I don’t doubt there’s “someone” out there... / But he’s just some coward who couldn’t take the pressure!!! He won’t help you!!!Usopp: (I’m sorry to say he’s pretty much right!! / You should all run for it, too!! Good luck, you guys!!)Dwarfs: No way...!!

8Leo: Shut up!!! Usoland wouldn’t lie to us!!!!Flashback!Usopp: I am the descendant of the hero Norland!!!Flashback!Dwarfs: Whoaaa!! That’s amazing~~!!Usopp: !!!Trebol: .........Leo: He promised that if anything went wrong, he would always be here to save us!!!Dwarfs: That’s right!! // Yeah!!Leo: He gave us his word!!! / Our hero would never deceive us!!!Usopp: ...............!!Leo: If you insult Usoland any more... // We won’t let you get away with it!!!

11Robin: (Usopp!! Thank goodness...)Usopp: How can you keep on trusting in me like that?!!! / You stupid little dwarfs!!!Dwarfs: Ehhhh~~~~?!Usopp: He’s right about everything!! I was lying all along!!!Dwarfs: Ehhhh~~~~?!Usopp: I’m no legendary hero!!! // And my name isn’t Usoland!!! // I’m the fearsome sniper of the Straw Hat crew!! // My name is Usopp!!! I’m a pirate!!!People: ?!!Toys: (Th...The Straw Hats?! // Why are they here?!!)Leo: ...............!! // ......Why... / Why are you saying these things...?

12Leo: You’re a pirate...but...but stil a hero, right??Usopp: I just told you, I’m no hero!! A pirate is a pirate!!! // Don’t make me repeat myself!! I was just tricking you all!! / But you just had to keep on believing me...!!Dwarfs: ......!! // Waaaahhh!Trebol: ...So what, you came back here just to admit to your lie?! Beheheh!!Usopp: If I didn’t, these idiots would keep on waiting for me until they were all dead! / I don’t know how I’d sleep at night knowing that, so I figured as thanks for believing in me... / ...I might as well go out fighting like a man instead!Leo: ......Eh??Usopp: My name is Usopp!!! And don’t you dare forget it, Tontatta!! If I die here today, you’d better put up a statue of me next to Norland!! // From this moment on, I’m going to become your “legendary hero”!!!Dwarfs: ?!!

14[Box: Royal Palace, 2F: The Suit Room]People: We’ve received reports that the young master is on the first floor!!Doflamingo: There’s someone who looks like me here in the palace?!OneLeg: (This sword looks just right... // If I can become human again, it will serve me well... // Your Majesty...!!)Violet: (My father was competing in the Colosseum today!)Luffy: Huh? Really?Violet: (He was shaken by the events of this morning, just like the rest of us...)OneLeg: (The Colosseum......!!)

15OneLeg: ..................Flashback!People: A young lad has committed murder!! / Two people were killed during a scrap in the slums!! / And as for the culprit... // We can’t let him near King Riku!! // He may be just a boy, but his acts of delinquency are infamous throughout the land!! // !!![Box: Boy From The Slums / Kyros / (15 Years Old)]Flashback!People: His Majesty is in danger! Shoot the boy dead!!!Flashback!Riku: Wait!!!Flashback!People: ?!!Flashback!Riku: Don’t shoot!! Lower your weapons!!!

16Flashback!Riku: Your name is Kyros, boy...? // Come with me...!!![Box: Corrida Colosseum]Flashback!Announcer: Kyros, the fifteen-year-old murderer!!Flashback!People: !!! // This is the sacred Colosseum!! // Such potential!! With a blade, that would have been fatal!!Flashback!Riku: So what amounts to barbarity in the outside world...here is “potential”, eh?Flashback!People: He beat the fellow competitors in his room to within an inch of their lives... / He hasn’t eaten for six days...and he won’t speak a word to anyone.

17Flashback!People: Well, actually, he does say just one thing... // ?! // “Bring me King Riku”...Flashback!Kyros: My enemies were a group!! They killed my friend!!! // So I killed them in return!!!Flashback!Riku: Boy... // Are you an animal?Flashback!Kyros: I thought you of all people might understand me!!!Flashback!Riku: Bring him food. / He still has the will to live.Flashback!Kyros: No matter how long it takes, if I win a hundred matches you’ll grant me parole?[Box: Four months later...]Flashback!Announcer: One hundred matches, one hundred victories!!! Not even our star combatants can touch him!!Flashback!Kyros: Yeahhhhhh~~~~!!Flashback!Announcer: Kyros has won his freedom faster than anyone could have imagined!!

18Flashback!People: Don’t leave your cell, murderer!!Flashback!Kyros: ..................Flashback!Riku: You’re not going to leave...?Flashback!Kyros: I can’t go where I’m not wanted.Flashback!Riku: When did you become a man who desired acceptance?Flashback!Kyros: Shaddup!!! // (A beast can only be loved when it remains behind bars...)Flashback!Announcer: Two hundred victories~~~~~!!!Flashback!People: Somebody defeat Kyros already~~~~!!Flashback!Announcer: Three hundred victories~~~~~~~!!! // Can nobody put an end to Kyros’ reign~~~?!! / Hero after hero has fallen at his hands!!!Flashback!Challenger: I’ve crossed many oceans to face this challenge!!! // Let me fight Kyros!!!Flashback!People: Today he’s going to be fighting a giant!! // He’s facing a fishman underwater?!

19[Box: His fourth year in the Colosseum...]Flashback!Announcer: He’s done what no man dared to dream of~~~~!!!Flashback!People: Kyros~~~~~!! // Kyros-sama~~~~~!!Flashback!Announcer: ONE THOUSAND VICTORIES~~~~~~!!!!Flashback!Kyros: .........Flashback!Riku: ......... // Here again, Kyros?Flashback!Kyros: ......... // Don’t come near me. You can’t understand...!! // No matter how far I come, I’ll always be a murderer and a beast...Flashback!Riku: .........Flashback!Kyros: Dammitall!!! // I wish everyone would just...forget I ever existed......!!![Insert text: The desperate cry of a man doomed to be forgotten...!!][Bottom text: Next issue, One Piece will be taking a break. It will be back in Issue 18.]